No lies, no exaggerations, just the experiences of a school-based PGCE

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Blogs are back up and running :)

After a week of internet troubles I have finally got everything fixed and can blog again! And what's even better is that it is now the Christmas holidays on my course so I am getting the reward of all the hard work during the term.
It has no doubt been the hardest couple of months I have ever had but I feel like I have come out of it a much improved teacher and so all the long days seem to have paid off.
The big news from the past week is that I have officially passed TP1 and assignment three! I had my review day yesterday and didn't get any cause for concerns which is a massive worry off my back. I didn't think I was failing but with 33 QTS skills I wasn't sure if I would be on task on every single one of them. I also had a positive evaluation with lots of constructive ways for me to improve, which I will be taking forward into my next placement in January.
But as for now, it is a hard-earnt three weeks break for me with just light reading to complete before I return to school in the first week of next year.Well done to everyone on a PGCE who has got this far and I would just like to wish good luck to all those who have reviews and hand-ins this week.

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About me

They say a PGCE is one of the most challenging years of your life and I am about to find out just how true that is. I have been accepted onto a SCITT programme and am going to use this blog as an anonymous way of expressing my thoughts, releasing my tension and giving an insight to anybody interested in following the same path.
I will not use any real names so that I can truthfully write my experiences and will be using this as a way to express what emotions you go through during the training year.
The school I am in is a calm, small town school, which I hope will be unlike what you read about in most PGCE blogs and books but I will let you know if this is any different.
Everything written will always be the truth, unexaggerated and as I really feel it.
My aim at the beginning of the year is to update this regularly, even if the posts are short but apologies if the workload gets too much later on.